“Always do what you are afraid to do.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson This should be tattooed on my arm. Why is it so hard for us to do what we are afraid of? And why is it that once we take that risk, it is a huge relief, even if things don’t turn out as we [...]
Risk?
Recently, I took a trip to Ireland with my husband and another couple. We had a marvelous time in that beautiful country. The people are so nice and friendly. I love it there. We were in a very old thatched cottage where we were to have a traditional Irish meal and hear storytellers and traditional [...]
It’s Only Words
Like Laura’s post from Monday, I too had to change my post after Sunday evening. I, too, have thought a lot about delight in the past 24 hours. I’ve had an abundance of gifts thrown my way the past week – many quite unexpected. I’ve grown enough to be aware of the gifts pretty close [...]
Up In the Air
I hate to fly. On this particular flight (San Francisco to Denver), I’m in a middle seat (yuck) on a typically full domestic insert your favorite cursed airline here flight. And even though I’ve been flying regularly for years, my heart still races a bit at takeoff and during turbulence….I can manage it, but it [...]
Moving Mountains
At my age, I’ve done most of my big risking. (Although writing monthly blogs is a hug risk for me!) I get it that I still take risks every day but probably the biggest risks I’ll ever take, have been taken. I was driving just the other day and listening to a new Celtic Women [...]
risking having/doing/being enough
Howdy from beautiful Georgetown, Texas, where Martha and I are visiting my folks. I am here doing a little work, but mostly I’m vacationing. And the little bit of work I’m doing, really feels like vacationing, so I am certainly not complaining! Just yesterday, for example, we had tea in Austin with two of the [...]
In Praise of Julia Cameron
I guess I’m a person with talents. I have some talents – some more developed than others. I’ve always wanted to be able to draw/paint. My father could and I have wanted to be able to also. I have taken some classes in drawing and I showed some talent but nothing to “write home about.” [...]
Risk Your Muse
Has anybody ever said to you, “You know, you really ought to be a “brain surgeon” or “ballerina” or “actor“ or “writer”? The possibilities are endless, it seems for things that others can suggest for us. And it just seems so…I don’t know…risky. I was asked to write a prayer for a specific group and I was [...]
Risky Is-ness
This physical realm is filled with riddles for us to solve along the way… perhaps the greatest riddle of them all is that the answers are different for each of us at any given moment in our lives, or that reality is relative. You can examine two people whose lives appear to be similar, both [...]
